Co-Ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society (aka Books & Boobs)
Here's where I try to tell you about a group of mostly attractive, topless young women in NYC who read pulp fiction in public to "keep reading sexy" without tarnishing LitReactor's classy reputation, without succumbing to the dozens of boob-related puns that are taunting me with their easy humor (DON'T say "titillating"), and without actually showing you any of the aforementioned breasts (which, let's face it, is probably why you clicked this link). Uh-huh.
The Co-Ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society gathers regularly to take full advantage of a 1992 court decision that reversed laws against public toplessness in NYC. Their mission is to bring attention to, um, reading and to the oft-overloooked law that provides men and women equal rights to bare their chests in the state of New York. So far, the group has had only one brief encounter with police, which ended with officers checking on the law then wishing the ladies a nice day, and claims that male oglers have not been a big problem. As one member put it: "Sure, there are some men who’ll behave badly, but frankly that happens when we’re wearing both halves of our swimsuits too."
Beautiful women with books exercising their rights—what's not to love? If you're in NYC and want to join them, get in touch for details on the next event. If you're not in NYC, you can always bring a book to the fifth anniversary International GoTopless Day activities in your city on August 26. Or check your local laws and start your own topless book club.
(You've been very patient, so if you're looking for the NSFW photos of CTPFAS's Memorial Day get-together look no further.)
What would you do if you ran across the group in the park? High-five them for being a bastion of women's rights? Join them? Ignore them? Take a picture like a creepy perv? Run around covering children's eyes?
Photo via The Co-Ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society
News by Kimberly Turner
Kimberly Turner is an internet entrepreneur, DJ, editor, beekeeper, linguist, traveler, and writer. This either makes her exceptionally well-rounded or slightly crazy; it’s hard to say which. She spent a decade as a journalist and magazine editor in Australia and the U.S. and is now working (very, very slowly) on her first novel. She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics and lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband, two cats, ten fish, and roughly 60,000 bees.
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...The "perks" of big city life.
It says coed, but dudes are mysteriously absent in all the pics.
I don't know what you've been reading, but unless Bee-line books have lied to me, that's exactly what co-eds look like.
Making reading sexy again.
Durp. Wrong definition.
I fully support this.
That is the funny thing about the word co-ed. It applies only to the feminine.
This is great. I wonder if a male version would be seen the same way. A bottomless reading?
Books-n-Dicks?
Funny too how women read topless in France everyday and get zero publicity.
Yeah, but co-ed can also mean both sexes, like co-ed classes, or bathrooms. Right?
1 - Thanks for the article, and the link to the pics...
2 - I appreciate the three titles (AmazonBooks.com links) under the article...
3 -
a) Look at their breasts.
b) Look them in the eyes, nod, smile.
c) Check out what they're reading.
4 - @ Kimberley - hey! You were one of those women in the park! All right! Didn't see that until I came back from the link! High-five-to-you!!!
Sadly my wife's not a big reader.